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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for January 2008:
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City Room: No Iran Visit, Columbia Says
The university said it had "no knowledge or information" about a report in the Iranian media that a delegation of professors and deans would visit Tehran to apologize for the Columbia president's remarks in September...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Judge Won't Inquire Into CIA Tapes Case
A federal judge said there was no evidence the Bush administration violated a court order and the Justice Department deserved time to conduct its own investigation...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
The Lede Blog: The Lede: The Man Who Turned Against the C.I.A.
What was Philip Agee -- a whistle-blower, a renegade, a traitor, or all of the above?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Spitzer Strikes a Conciliatory Tone
Gov. Eliot Spitzer kicked off his second year with warm words for his friends and foes alike, offering a less combative tone in his State of the State address...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq in 2 Days
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military reported Wednesday...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
House Hearing on Steroids in Baseball Is Postponed
The House committee is postponing a hearing featuring Roger Clemens and other players until Feb. 13...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Debate Was Key to Win, Clinton Says
In interviews on the morning after her primary victory in New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton cited Saturday?s debate as a turning point...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Democrats Rush to Build Up Campaigns in Nevada
Nevada was vaulted into the position of tie-breaker after the victory of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in New Hampshire Tuesday...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
DuPont Raises Outlook, Sending Shares Higher
Citing strong fourth-quarter results and prospects for growth in emerging markets, DuPont raised its earnings outlook for 2007 as well as its profit forecast for 2008...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
State of the Art: Same Old Electronics Show, With Some Intriguing New Ideas
This year?s Consumer Electronics Show looked and felt much the same as last year?s...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
DealBook Blog: E*Trade Rises on Modest Sales Loss
The online brokerage said that it sold $3 billion of mortgage-backed securities and municipal bonds, with a modest realized loss of $5 million...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Target President to Succeed Chief in May
In a long-expected move, the retailer announced that its chief executive, Bob Ulrich, would retire May 1 and be replaced by its president, Gregg Steinhafel...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Alcoa Reports Rise in Quarterly Profit
The company reported net income for the fourth quarter of $632 million on restructuring moves and tax benefits, which more than offset lower aluminum prices...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Wall Street Ends Volatile Session Higher
Stocks rebounded in the final hour of a back-and-forth session as investors tried to look for bargains while contending with concerns about the economy and upcoming corporate results...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Monitoring Tools Help Cut Home Energy Use, Study Finds
Giving people the tools to monitor and adjust their electricity use lowers their bills and could reduce the need to build new power plants, according to a government study...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
For Bernanke, a Question of Toughness
Many argue that with the stock market falling and the economy flirting with recession, the Fed?s chairman should be more aggressive than he has been so far...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
US children 'thrown off bridge'
A US man confesses to throwing his four children off an Alabama bridge after a dispute with his wife, police say...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Well Blog: School Popularity Affects Girls? Weights
Does thinness lead to popularity for teen girls, or is it the other way around?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
City Room: An Advance Look at Spitzer?s Speech
Gov. Eliot Spitzer is expected to strike a conciliatory tone in his second state of the state speech this afternoon, focusing heavily on issues like schools, property taxes and health insurance, based on excerpts released this morning...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
3 Killed in Florida Highway Pileup
As many as 50 cars and trucks crashed when fog and smoke from brush fires made it almost impossible to see...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Supreme Court Hears Voter ID Case
The Supreme Court appeared reluctant to strike down the nation?s strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
The Caucus Blog: For McCain, Quiet Before Big Stage
In the wake of his victory, Senator John McCain faces fresh challenges...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
The Caucus Blog: Clinton?s Strategy Echoes Bush in ?00
Like the president in 2000, Mrs. Clinton co-opted her opponent?s change mantra...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Clinton Says Debate Was Turning Point in Her Victory
In interviews on the morning after her primary victory in New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton cited Saturday?s debate as a key factor...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Square Feet: Amazon Consolidates in Growing Area of Seattle
Amazon.com, the world?s largest online retailer, will soon finally have one place to call home...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
DealBook Blog: E*Trade Rises on Modest Sales Loss
The online brokerage said that it sold $3 billion of mortgage-backed securities and municipal bonds, with a modest realized loss of $5 million...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Apple Agrees to Cut iTunes Prices in Britain
Settling an antitrust case brought by European regulators, Apple agreed to align the prices on its iTunes digital music store in Britain with those in Continental Europe...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Wall Street Pares Gains After Sell - Off
Wall Street gave up early gains a day after stocks tumbled amid questions about the strength of the economy and upcoming corporate earnings reports...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
California Pension Fund Takes Big Stake in Silver Lake, at $275 Million
Silver Lake, the largest technology-focused private equity firm, announced a deal to sell a 9.9 percent stake to the California Public Employees? Retirement System...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
MBIA Slashes Dividend to Preserve Ratings
The world?s largest bond insurer slashed its common stock dividend 62 percent as part of a plan to strengthen capital and preserve its ?triple-A? credit ratings...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Taxpayer Advocate Urges ?Apology Payments?
Taxpayers who endure excessive expense or drain on their time when the I.R.S. mishandles a case should receive payments of up to $1,000 each, the National Taxpayer Advocate told Congress...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Fighting Inflation, China Freezes Energy Prices
Responding to growing public anxiety about inflation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced that China would freeze prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity in the near term...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Boeing 787 hit by security fears
Boeing is ordered to ensure passengers on its new 787 Dreamliner jet cannot hack into flight system...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Several killed in Florida pile-up
At least three people die in a 50-car pile up on a busy motorway obscured by fog in the US state of Florida...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Bush in Israel to Push for Peace
President Bush opened his first presidential trip to Israel, seeking to build momentum for stalled Middle Eastern peace talks...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
A Show of Emotion Heard ?Round the World
When Hillary Rodham Clinton choked up in New Hampshire, she prompted one of the most debated moments of the campaign...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Profit Rises for Liquor Company
Constellation Brands, the wine and spirits company, said on Tuesday that third-quarter profit rose 11 percent, lifted by strong liquor sales, a growing wine business in North America and the acquisition of Svedka vodka...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
McCain and Bush?s Heirs
John McCain?s economic platform contrasts sharply with his rivals? and represents the start of a Republican response to middle-class anxiety...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Paulson Says U.S. May Expand Mortgage Aid
The Treasury secretary said the administration was in talks with the mortgage industry to expand a program that freezes adjustable rate mortgages for five years to include borrowers of loans at prime rates...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Executive Leaving Barclays Capital
Barclays Capital said its co-president, Grant Kvalheim, had resigned and would leave at the end of the first quarter...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Deal Reached to Buy Some Verizon Lines
FairPoint Communications reached an agreement with the Vermont Public Service Department that would allow it to buy Verizon phone lines in the state...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Countrywide Denies Rumors of Bankruptcy
Shares of the Countrywide Financial Corporation plunged 28.4 percent after it denied rumors that it was planning to file for bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Loss Mounts for KB Home, and Builder Warns of More Distress Ahead
KB Home, the large home builder, said that its fourth-quarter loss swelled as the housing slowdown led to fewer sales and lower revenue...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Realtors? Index Shows Dip for Existing-Home Sales
Pending home sales dipped in November, a trade group for real estate agents said, but the association expects sales to pick up in the second half of 2008...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
A Place So Crowded, Nobody Goes There Anymore
A plan is being developed to alleviate the growing pressure from pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Times Square...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Fed Panel Was Divided Over Outlook for Economy
Reflecting a highly uncertain and divided outlook on monetary policy, regional Federal Reserve banks supported three options for the discount rate last month...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Job Cuts at McGraw-Hill Will Eliminate 3% of Staff
The McGraw-Hill Companies said it was cutting 611 jobs, or 3 percent of its staff, and taking an after-tax charge of $27.3 million, or 8 cents a share, in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
F.C.C. to Look at Complaints Comcast Interferes With Net
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether Comcast is interfering with its subscribers? attempts to use a popular online file-sharing program...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Some Golden Globes Sponsors Withdraw
Some prominent advertisers have pulled their sponsorships for NBC?s strike-subdued Golden Globes coverage, media buyers said...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
California Pension Fund Expected to Take Big Stake in Silver Lake, at $275 Million
Silver Lake, the largest technology-focused private equity firm, has reached a deal to sell a 9.9 percent stake to the California Public Employees? Retirement System...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Bid for China Eastern Airline Stake Rebuffed
The snub opens the way for the parent of the nation?s largest carrier, Air China, to make an offer of its own...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Microsoft Bids for Search Software Firm
Microsoft?s $1.2 billion bid for a Norwegian search software company is seen as an effort to add tools to its lucrative Office products and fend off Google...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Wireless Start-Up Fails to Get Financing
Failing to raise the $14 billion needed to bid in government auctions of wireless spectrum later this month, Frontline Wireless has left...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Trying to Be Heard Above the Din, and Be Trusted
A new JPMorgan Chase campaign aims to overcome cluttered airwaves, nervous customers and cuts in marketing budgets...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Stocks Dive on Reports of New Ills
Shares tumbled late in the day after AT&T?s chief suggested consumers might be cutting back and Countrywide Financial denied it was tumbling into bankruptcy...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Citigroup Combining Mortgage Operations Into One Unit
Badly bruised by the sharp downturn in the housing market, Citigroup is bringing its mortgage-related activities under one roof...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
A Regulator Not Stymied by Red Tape
Warren Buffett?s new firm, Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation, takes its first steps into the bond insurance market...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Extrication Time at Bear Stearns
James E. Cayne ended his tumultuous 14-year run as chief executive of the battered Bear Stearns, passing the baton to Alan D. Schwartz...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Well: Breast Cancer Gene Risk May Be Overstated
Gene mutations linked to breast cancer may pose less danger than previously believed, a new study shows...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
The Lede Blog: Tapes Counter Iran on Confrontation
Did Iran say, "I'm coming at you and you will blow up in a couple of minutes"?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
City Room: A License to Check for W.M.D.?s?
Under a Bloomberg administration proposal, individuals and companies would have to get a permit from the Police Department to buy or use a biological, chemical or radiological detector...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Gossage Elected to Hall in His Ninth Attempt
Rich Gossage was elected in his ninth year on the ballot while Jim Rice, Andre Dawson and Mark McGwire, a slugger who has been suspected of using steroids, fell short...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
McCain?s Victory Scrambles Field
The battleground now shifts to states where each of the leaders believes he holds advantages...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Patrician Director of Met Museum Will Retire
Philippe de Montebello, who has led the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 30 years, announced Tuesday that he planned to retire at the end of the year...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Clinton Is Victor, Defeating Obama; McCain Also Wins
Hillary Rodham Clinton?s victory was a surprising show of strength after her loss in Iowa. John McCain reprised his 2000 primary win, beating Mitt Romney...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
News Analysis: Clinton Escapes to Fight Another Day
Registered Democrats preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton to Barack Obama...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Profit Rises for Liquor Company
Constellation Brands, the wine and spirits company, said on Tuesday that third-quarter profit rose 11 percent, lifted by strong liquor sales, a growing wine business in North America and the acquisition of Svedka vodka...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Deal Reached to Buy Some Verizon Lines
FairPoint Communications reached an agreement with the Vermont Public Service Department that would allow it to buy Verizon phone lines in the state...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Executive Leaving Barclays Capital
Barclays Capital said its co-president, Grant Kvalheim, had resigned and would leave at the end of the first quarter...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Loss Mounts for KB Home, and Builder Warns of More Distress Ahead
KB Home, the large home builder, said that its fourth-quarter loss swelled as the housing slowdown led to fewer sales and lower revenue...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Countrywide Denies Rumors of Bankruptcy
Shares of the Countrywide Financial Corporation plunged 28.4 percent after it denied rumors that it was planning to file for bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Fed Panel Was Divided Over Outlook for Economy
Reflecting a highly uncertain and divided outlook on monetary policy, regional Federal Reserve banks supported three options for the discount rate last month...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Realtors? Index Shows Dip for Existing-Home Sales
Pending home sales dipped in November, a trade group for real estate agents said, but the association expects sales to pick up in the second half of 2008...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Square Feet: A Place So Crowded, Nobody Goes There Anymore
A plan is being developed to alleviate the growing pressure from pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Times Square...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
F.C.C. to Look at Complaints Comcast Interferes With Net
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether Comcast is interfering with its subscribers? attempts to use a popular online file-sharing program...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Job Cuts at McGraw-Hill Will Eliminate 3% of Staff
The McGraw-Hill Companies said it was cutting 611 jobs, or 3 percent of its staff, and taking an after-tax charge of $27.3 million, or 8 cents a share, in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Some Golden Globes Sponsors Withdraw
Some prominent advertisers have pulled their sponsorships for NBC?s strike-subdued Golden Globes coverage, media buyers said...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
California Pension Fund Expected to Take Big Stake in Silver Lake, at $275 Million
Silver Lake, the largest technology-focused private equity firm, has reached a deal to sell a 9.9 percent stake to the California Public Employees? Retirement System...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Bid for China Eastern Airline Stake Rebuffed
The snub opens the way for the parent of the nation?s largest carrier, Air China, to make an offer of its own...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Advertising: Trying to Be Heard Above the Din, and Be Trusted
A new JPMorgan Chase campaign aims to overcome cluttered airwaves, nervous customers and cuts in marketing budgets...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Microsoft Bids for Search Software Firm
Microsoft?s $1.2 billion bid for a Norwegian search software company is seen as an effort to add tools to its lucrative Office products and fend off Google...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Citigroup Combining Mortgage Operations Into One Unit
Badly bruised by the sharp downturn in the housing market, Citigroup is bringing its mortgage-related activities under one roof...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Wireless Start-Up Fails to Get Financing
Failing to raise the $14 billion needed to bid in government auctions of wireless spectrum later this month, Frontline Wireless has left...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Economic Scene: McCain and Bush?s Heirs
John McCain?s economic platform contrasts sharply with his rivals? and represents the start of a Republican response to middle-class anxiety...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Stocks Dive on Reports of New Ills
Shares tumbled late in the day after AT&T?s chief suggested consumers might be cutting back and Countrywide Financial denied it was tumbling into bankruptcy...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Extrication Time at Bear Stearns
James E. Cayne ended his tumultuous 14-year run as chief executive of the battered Bear Stearns, passing the baton to Alan D. Schwartz...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
A Regulator Not Stymied by Red Tape
Warren Buffett?s new firm, Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation, takes its first steps into the bond insurance market...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent
Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million in 2007 on carbon offset credits, but where exactly is that money going?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Bear Stearns CEO steps down
Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne resigns amid the US investment bank's losses in the sub-prime mortgage crisis...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
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